Yuval Heller

Bar Ilan University

Professor

Dept. of Economics, Building 504

Bar Ilan University

Ramat Gan, 5290002

Israel

http://https://sites.google.com/site/yuval26/

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Scholarly Papers (46)

1.

Overconfidence and Diversification

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 13 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 20 Feb 2013
Yuval Heller
Bar Ilan University
Downloads 233 (274,727)
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Naive Analytics: The Strategic Advantage of Algorithmic Heuristics

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 30 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 30 Apr 2024
Ron Berman and Yuval Heller
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and Bar Ilan University
Downloads 209 (304,773)

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advertising, pricing, data analytics, strategic distortion, strategic complements, indirect evolutionary approach

3.

Social Media and Democracy

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 13 Jul 2022 Last Revised: 01 Dec 2022
Ronen Gradwohl, Yuval Heller and Arye L. Hillman
University of Haifa - Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University and Bar-Ilan University - Department of Economics
Downloads 198 (322,064)

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Bayesian persuasion; Political agenda; Information manipulation; Condorcet Jury Theorem; Biased signals

4.

Comparing the Effects of Non-Monetary Incentives and Monetary Incentives on Prosocial Behavior

European Economic Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 07 Mar 2023 Last Revised: 22 Apr 2024
Yamit Asulin, Yuval Heller and Nira Munichor
Bar Ilan University, Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University and Bar-Ilan University - S. Daniel Abraham School of Business Administration
Downloads 190 (332,999)

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Prosocial behavior, Crowding out, Field experiments, Non-monetary incentives, Monetary incentives, Real-effort experiment

5.

Communication, Renegotiation and Coordination with Private Values (Extended Working Paper Version)

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 12 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 02 Mar 2022
Yuval Heller and Christoph Kuzmics
Bar Ilan University and University of Graz - Department of Economics
Downloads 188 (336,215)
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cheaptalk, communication-proofness, renegotiation-proofness, secrethandshake, incomplete information, evolutionary robustness

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Strategies in the Repeated Prisoner’s Dilemma: A Cluster Analysis

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 31 May 2023 Last Revised: 31 Oct 2024
Yuval Heller and itay tubul
Bar Ilan University and Bar Ilan University - Department of Economics
Downloads 155 (398,162)

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k-means clustering, machine-learning, memory, laboratory experiment, repeated games.

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The Benefits of Coarse Preferences

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 30 Jan 2022 Last Revised: 30 Nov 2024
Joseph Y. Halpern, Yuval Heller and Eyal Winter
Cornell University - Department of Computer Science, Bar Ilan University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Department of Economics
Downloads 88 (612,258)

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Categorization, language, indirect evolutionary approach, monotone externali- ties, strategic complements, strategic substitutes.

The Benefits of Coarse Preferences

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 30 Oct 2023
Yuval Heller, Joseph Y. Halpern and Eyal Winter
Bar Ilan University, Cornell University - Department of Computer Science and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Department of Economics
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Categorization, language, indirect evolutionary approach, monotone externalities, strategic complements, strategic substitutes.

The Benefits of Coarse Preferences

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 20 May 2024
Yuval Heller, Eyal Winter and Joseph Y. Halpern
Bar Ilan University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Department of Economics and Cornell University - Department of Computer Science
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Categorization, language, indirect evolutionary approach, monotone externalities, strategic complements, strategic substitutes

8.

Biased-Belief Equilibrium

American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, forthcoming
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 03 Dec 2018 Last Revised: 23 Feb 2019
Yuval Heller and Eyal Winter
Bar Ilan University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Department of Economics
Downloads 117 (497,349)
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Coevolution of Deception and Preferences: Darwin and Nash Meet Machiavelli

Games and Economic Behavior, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 46 Posted: 02 Sep 2014 Last Revised: 27 Sep 2018
Yuval Heller and Erik Mohlin
Bar Ilan University and University of Oxford - Nuffield Department of Medicine
Downloads 112 (513,962)
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Evolution of Preferences, Indirect Evolutionary Approach, Theory of Mind, Depth of Reasoning, Deception

10.

A Closed-Form Solution to the Risk-Taking Motivation of Subordinated Debtholders

Number of pages: 13 Posted: 20 May 2019
Yuval Heller, Sharon Peleg Lazar and Alon Raviv
Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv University and Bar-Ilan University - Graduate School of Business Administration
Downloads 109 (524,314)
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Risk Taking, Banks, Asset Risk, Leverage, Subordinated Debt

11.

Sampling Dynamics and Stable Mixing in Hawk-Dove Games

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 08 Jul 2021 Last Revised: 17 Jun 2022
University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Downloads 108 (527,924)
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Chicken game, learning, evolutionary stability, bounded rational- ity, payoff sampling dynamics, action sampling dynamics.

12.

All-Stage Strong Correlated Equilibrium

Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 69, No. 1, 2010
Number of pages: 7 Posted: 11 Aug 2009 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2011
Yuval Heller
Bar Ilan University
Downloads 108 (527,924)

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coalition-proofness, strong correlated equilibrium, common knowledge, incomplete information, non-cooperative games

13.

Banks' Risk Taking and Creditors' Bargaining Power

Journal of Corporate Finance, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 11 Jan 2019 Last Revised: 27 Apr 2022
Yuval Heller, Sharon Peleg Lazar and Alon Raviv
Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv University and Bar-Ilan University - Graduate School of Business Administration
Downloads 105 (538,936)

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Risk-taking, asset risk, financial institutions, stress test, leverage, bargaining, bail-in debt.

14.

Rule Rationality

International Economic Review, Forthcoming.
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 01 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 30 Apr 2015
Yuval Heller and Eyal Winter
Bar Ilan University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Department of Economics
Downloads 103 (546,495)
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Bounded Rationality, commitments, categorization, value of information

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Heterogeneous Noise and Stable Miscoordination

Number of pages: 53 Posted: 13 Feb 2023 Last Revised: 15 Nov 2024
University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Downloads 102 (550,279)
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sampling best Response dynamics, action-sampling dynamics, coordi- nation games, hawk-dove games, evolutionary stability, logit dyanmics.

16.

A Minority-Proof Cheap-Talk Protocol

Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 69, No. 2, 2010
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 13 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2011
Yuval Heller
Bar Ilan University
Downloads 97 (569,335)
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non-cooperative games, cheap-talk, correlated equilibrium, strong equilibrium, coalition-proof equilibrium, fault-tolerant distributed computation

17.

Observations on Cooperation

Review of Economic Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 62 Posted: 02 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2017
Yuval Heller and Erik Mohlin
Bar Ilan University and University of Oxford - Nuffield Department of Medicine
Downloads 92 (588,714)
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Community enforcement; indirect reciprocity; random matching; Prisoner's Dilemma; image scoring

18.

How Social Media Undermines Democracy

European Journal of Political Economy (forthcoming)
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 09 Oct 2023 Last Revised: 14 Dec 2024
Ronen Gradwohl, Yuval Heller and Arye L. Hillman
University of Haifa - Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University and Bar-Ilan University - Department of Economics
Downloads 86 (613,664)
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Media bias; Social media; Voter information; Ideology; Political persuasion

19.

The Endowment Effect as Blessing

International Economic Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 13 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 16 Jun 2017
Sivan Frenkel, Yuval Heller and Roee Teper
Tel Aviv University - Coller School of Management, Bar Ilan University and Tel Aviv University
Downloads 86 (613,664)
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Endowment Effect, Winner's Curse, Bounded Rationality, Evolution

20.

Evolutionary Foundation for Heterogeneity in Risk Aversion

Journal of Economic Theory, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 18 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 27 Jan 2023
Yuval Heller and Ilan Nehama
Bar Ilan University and Haifa University at Oranim
Downloads 84 (622,250)
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Evolution of preferences, risk interdependence, long-run growth rate

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Comparing the Effects of Non-Monetary Incentives and Monetary Incentives on Prosocial Behavior

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 27 Mar 2023
Yamit Asulin, Yuval Heller and Nira Munichor
Bar Ilan University, Bar Ilan University and Bar-Ilan University - S. Daniel Abraham School of Business Administration
Downloads 71 (683,239)

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Prosocial behavior, Crowding out, Field experiments, Non-monetary incentives, Monetary incentives, Real-effort experiment

22.

Evolution, Local Risk and Skewness Loving

Theoretical Economics (forthcoming)
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 21 Jul 2019 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2020
Yuval Heller and Arthur Robson
Bar Ilan University and Simon Fraser University (SFU)
Downloads 71 (683,239)
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evolution of preferences, risk atti- tude, risk interdependence, long-run growth rate, fertility rate.

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Language, Meaning, and Games: A Model of Communication, Coordination, and Evolution: Comment

American Economic Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 30 Aug 2013 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2014
Yuval Heller
Bar Ilan University
Downloads 71 (683,239)
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Lexicographic preferences, evolutionary stability, cheap talk

24.

Justifiable Choice

Games and Economic Behavior, Vol. 76, No. 2, 2012
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 30 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 31 Mar 2014
Yuval Heller
Bar Ilan University
Downloads 66 (709,787)
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rational choice, multiple priors, multiple rationals, tradeoff contrast effect

25.

Social Welfare in Search Games with Asymmetric Information

Journal of Economic Theory, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 24 Mar 2020 Last Revised: 18 Apr 2022
Gilad Bavly, Yuval Heller and Amnon Schreiber
Bar-Ilan University, Bar Ilan University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Downloads 64 (721,056)
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search duplication, decentralized research, social welfare, incomplete information

26.

Promises and Endogenous Reneging Costs

Journal of Economic Theory, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 27 Apr 2017 Last Revised: 29 Feb 2020
Yuval Heller, David Sturrock and David Sturrock
Bar Ilan University and Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS)University College London - University College London, Department of Economics, Students
Downloads 61 (738,352)
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Promises, Lying Costs, Joint Projects, Input Games, Partnerships

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Three Steps Ahead

Theoretical Economics, 10(1), 203-241
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 13 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 05 Feb 2015
Yuval Heller
Bar Ilan University
Downloads 58 (756,853)
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Limited foresight, Prisoner's Dilemma, limit ESS

28.

Social Image, Observer Identity, and Crowding Up

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 28 Dec 2023 Last Revised: 18 May 2024
Bar Ilan University, Bar Ilan University, Bar-Ilan University - S. Daniel Abraham School of Business Administration and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Downloads 57 (763,315)

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Social distance, field experiment, crowding up, prosocial behavior

29.

Communication, Correlation and Cheap-Talk in Games with Public Information

Games and Economic Behavior, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 13 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2011
Yuval Heller, Eilon Solan and Tristan Tomala
Bar Ilan University, Tel Aviv University - School of Mathematical Sciences and Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
Downloads 54 (782,910)

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cheap-talk, normal-form correlation, distributed computation

30.

Instability of defection in the prisoner’s dilemma under best experienced payoff dynamics

Journal of Economic Theory, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 07 May 2020 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2021
University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University and Bar-Ilan University - Department of Economics
Downloads 53 (789,740)
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learning, cooperation, best experienced payoff dynamics, sampling equilibrium, evolutionary stability.

31.

Social Learning and the Shadow of the Past

Journal of economic Theory, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 06 May 2017 Last Revised: 27 Jun 2018
Yuval Heller and Erik Mohlin
Bar Ilan University and University of Oxford - Nuffield Department of Medicine
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social learning, steady state, unique limiting behavior, path dependence

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Short-Term Investments and Indices of Risk

Theoretical Economics (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 06 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 13 Nov 2019
Yuval Heller and Amnon Schreiber
Bar Ilan University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Downloads 46 (841,414)
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Indices of riskiness, risk aversion, local risk, Wiener process

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Instability of Belief-Free Equilibria

Journal of Economic Theory, forthcoming
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 22 May 2015 Last Revised: 05 Jan 2017
Yuval Heller
Bar Ilan University
Downloads 45 (849,265)
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Belief-free equilibrium, evolutionary stability, imperfect private monitoring, repeated Prisoner's Dilemma, communication

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Communication, Renegotiation and Coordination With Private Values

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 07 Jun 2022 Last Revised: 27 Dec 2023
Christoph Kuzmics and Yuval Heller
University of Graz - Department of Economics and Bar Ilan University
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Secret handshake, evolutionary robustness, cheap talk, communication-proofness, incomplete information

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Sequential Correlated Equilibria in Stopping Games

Operations Research, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 10 Jun 2009 Last Revised: 30 Sep 2011
Yuval Heller
Bar Ilan University
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stochastic games, stopping games, correlated equilibrium, sequential equilibrium, Ramsey Theorem, distribution equilibrium

36.

Mentors and Recombinators: Multi-Dimensional Social Learning *

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 30 Nov 2023 Last Revised: 18 Aug 2024
University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Economics, The University of Manchester, Bar Ilan University and Bar-Ilan University
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revision protocols, imitation, non-monotone dynamics, evolutionary stability JEL codes: C73, D83

37.

Comparing the Effects of Non-Monetary Incentives and Monetary

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 24 Apr 2023
Yamit Asulin, Yuval Heller and Nira Munichor
Bar Ilan University, Bar Ilan University and Bar-Ilan University - S. Daniel Abraham School of Business Administration
Downloads 37 (918,718)

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Prosocial behavior, Crowding out, Field experiments, Non-monetary incentives, Monetary incentives, Real-effort experiment

38.

Stable Mixing in Hawk–Dove Games under Best Experienced Payoff Dynamics

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 15 Apr 2024 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2025
Yuval Heller and Srinivas Arigapudi
Bar Ilan University and University of Wisconsin-Madison - Department of Economics
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hawk–dove game, chicken game, learning, evolutionary stability, best experienced payoff dynamics

39.

Communication, Renegotiation and Coordination with Private Values

Games and Economic Behavior, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 05 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 21 Nov 2023
Yuval Heller and Christoph Kuzmics
Bar Ilan University and University of Graz - Department of Economics
Downloads 34 (947,501)

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cheap talk, communication-proofness, renegotiation-proofness, secret handshake, incomplete information, evolutionary robustness

40.

Naive Analytics: The Strategic Advantage Of Algorithmic Heuristics

The Wharton School Research Paper
Number of pages: 67 Posted: 16 Aug 2024
Ron Berman and Yuval Heller
University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School and Bar Ilan University
Downloads 32 (967,477)

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Advertising, pricing, data analytics, strategic complements, delegation.

41.

Stability and Trembles in Extensive-Form Games

Games and Economic Behavior, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 11 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 29 Oct 2013
Yuval Heller
Bar Ilan University
Downloads 32 (967,477)

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Limit ESS, evolutionary stability, extensive-form games

42.

Supplementary Appendix to Coevolution of Deception and Preferences: Darwin and Nash Meet Machiavelli

Number of pages: 11 Posted: 13 Feb 2017
Yuval Heller and Erik Mohlin
Bar Ilan University and University of Oxford - Nuffield Department of Medicine
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Unique Stationary Behavior

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 20 Aug 2015
Yuval Heller
Bar Ilan University
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Markovian process, Random matching.

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Strategies in the Repeated Prisoner's Dilemma: A Cluster Analysis

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 15 Nov 2024
Yuval Heller and Itay Tubul
Bar Ilan University and affiliation not provided to SSRN
Downloads 20 (1,105,627)

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k-means clustering, machine-learning, bounded memory, laboratory experiment, repeated games.

45.

Uniqueness of Inflection Points in Binomial Exceedance Function Compositions

Number of pages: 9 Posted: 12 Feb 2025
Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, Bar Ilan University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem
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Convex-concave functions, binomial distributions, cumulative distribution functions, unique fixed point

46.

Social Image, Observer Identity, and Crowding Up

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 14 Jan 2025
Bar Ilan University, Department of Economics, Bar Ilan University, Bar-Ilan University - S. Daniel Abraham School of Business Administration and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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Social image, social distance, field experiment, crowding up, prosocial behavior.